Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-06-08
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WATER EVERYWHERE,
A scientist who tsays the Artestan
Wells Will Never Fail.

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A Scientist Who says tho Artesian
Wells Will Never Eail.
Washington special; Samuel M.
Wallace, q scientist, patentee and in
ventor, interested in territorial matters,
invites attention to the fact that the ar.
tesian we'll at Aberdeen is supposed to
be failing, and says: 1T is practically
impossible for al artesian well to fail
OF course, It's first source of supply may
.wane, and the force decrease. But the
we'll should be sunk into the bowels of
the earth until one Of the subterranean
streams be struck, and then the flow js
as ceaseless and perennial as the verdure
of the tropics. appreheud that
economy mIsled the Aberdeenians into
q cessation OF the work too soon. /
don't know how deep their we'll is, ner
does 1t make any difference. II it
M seeming TO fail, that IS sign
enough that it is not deep enough.
Away down in the midst of the
supposed fiery depths OF the
prairie there are to be found living
ateams as Geld as ice and hot as fire can
make them. Not only Aberdeen, but all
prairie cities and counties should seek
to find that water. BY an upheaval of
the Rockies the fertile acreage of the
prairie country became q desert. Mill
ions OF acres are still arid land. The
4artesian we'll will settle the question of
the great American desert. 1t will settle
the question of the bad lands, the askali
lands and all other questions which 80.
largely engages the attention OF farmers
and agricuiturists in this county."
A vtIl.rArAzrA- liz -1 E~r - ~ - -,N
that these streams abound in the great
west ~
II have no reason beyond actual.
knowledge. Ii the sun rises yoa see it,
don,eyou2 And you don't ash one to
tell whas reason he has for believing that
the sun shines, do you? And if you see
a field Of wheat or oats, or corn and tell
your friend. THAT is a beautiful field
OF grain you are not expected to give
reasons for BELIEVING that you see a field
of grain. Do youg
'tBut have yon seen those subterran-
can streams. r.
t'Of course I have. l have traced
them to their sources and know their
courses and deltas and months. / can
not take you with nae, in o minute, all
over the ground that il has taken me
nearly six years to survey; but L o as
sure you That by actual study, / know
the courses OF the sub.earthly currents,
as veil as yon know, and better than
you know, the currents which run
through the ocean. They teach The
ocean currents mlthe schools, and have
very good mapsfor them. 1t will not
be many moon until the currents be-
meath the earth will be placed before the
rising generation, in the schools
But you say that the artesian well
can strike water everywhere. Do you
mean that 2,
"Ehat is exactly what / mean. Not
icnly are there living streams percolat-
ing the entire EARTH but the well-known
laws OF endosm0sis and exosmosis, or
the .seeping' process, make the base OF
the prairie country q wAtery bed; just
as the hill country Is founded on the
Everlasting granite"
"How can this arteeian we'll process
solve the problems Of agriculture. Of
lyon suggest"
"Moisture ia necessary, and that alone
to make the desert blossom everywhere
as the rose. Fill Sahara with water, OF
moisten il deeply, and the weeds which
are everywhere, even in the air particles
which we breath, the seeds will lodge,
extend their roots and bud into promis.
ling plants and put forth. their foliage
AS soon rs that frat step lie taken, the
rains will seek the erstwhile baxrer
waste and continue encouraging the en-
largement OF the vegetable kingdom
It is q simple matter that. every child
ought to understand"
care any OF these subteryaneai
streams under the pralries OF Dakota 2
aEnough Of them to wash away al
the accumulated alkali Of the ages if tht
people will only permit them TO do so
Let them put down their drills ani
make an opening for the water to burs
forth, andSit will do all the work OF ,rri.
eating, fraotifying and enriehing TIL
land. Especially is this true of th,
hills. All OF that country is rich will
water, and there is o great deal Of ID OF
the surface. Bnt d conntry between
Rapid Oily and Dickinson needs artesiai
wells more than any other portion Ok til,
Territory. All should have il, however. !
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